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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2023
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (), which performs a compression test with respect to at least two points of a popliteal vein and a common femoral vein of a subject, includes an ultrasound probe (), an image acquisition unit () that acquires an ultrasound image by transmitting an ultrasound beam toward the subject from the ultrasound probe (), a vein detection unit () that detects the popliteal vein included in the ultrasound image, and an operation guiding unit () that guides a user, in a case where the compression test of the popliteal vein is performed, to operate the ultrasound probe such that the ultrasound probe () is positioned at a position in which only one popliteal vein is included in the ultrasound image based on the number of the popliteal veins detected by the vein detection unit ().